Fraud: While the global warming alarmists have done a good job of spreading fright, they haven’t been so good at hiding their real motivation. Yet another one has slipped up and revealed the catalyst driving the climate scare.
We have been told now for almost three decades that man has to change his ways or his fossil-fuel emissions will scorch Earth with catastrophic warming. Scientists, politicians and activists have maintained the narrative that their concern is only about caring for our planet and its inhabitants. But this is simply not true. The narrative is a ruse. They are after something entirely different.
If they were honest, the climate alarmists would admit that they are not working feverishly to hold down global temperatures -- they would acknowledge that they are instead consumed with the goal of holding down capitalism and establishing a global welfare state.
Have doubts? Then listen to the words of former United Nations climate official Ottmar Edenhofer:
"One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole," said Edenhofer, who co-chaired the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change from 2008 to 2015.
So what is the goal of environmental policy?
"We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy," said Edenhofer.
For those who want to believe that maybe Edenhofer just misspoke and doesn’t really mean that, consider that a little more than five years ago he also said that "the next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world’s resources will be negotiated."
Mad as they are, Edenhofer’s comments are nevertheless consistent with other alarmists who have spilled the movement’s dirty secret. Last year, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, made a similar statement.
"This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution," she said in anticipation of last year’s Paris climate summit.
"This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history."
The plan is to allow Third World countries to emit as much carbon dioxide as they wish -- because, as Edenhofer said, "in order to get rich one has to burn coal, oil or gas" -- while at the same time restricting emissions in advanced nations. This will, of course, choke economic growth in developed nations, but they deserve that fate as they "have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community," he said. The fanaticism runs so deep that one professor has even suggested that we need to plunge ourselves into a depression to fight global warming.
Perhaps Naomi Klein summed up best what the warming the fuss is all about in her book "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate."
"What if global warming isn’t only a crisis?" Klein asks in a preview of a documentary inspired by her book. "What if it’s the best chance we’re ever going to get to build a better world?"
In her mind, the world has to "change, or be changed" because an "economic system" -- meaning free-market capitalism -- has caused environmental "wreckage."
This is how the global warming alarmist community thinks. It wants to frighten, intimidate and then assume command. It needs a "crisis" to take advantage of, a hobgoblin to menace the people, so that they will beg for protection from the imaginary threat. The alarmists’ "better world" is one in which they rule a global welfare state. They’ve admitted this themselves.
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And so we have seen that it's perfectly OK for China to burn so much coal that residents of Peking are warned to stay indoors to keep from breathing the smoke. But West Virginia gets the shaft and the US steel industry dies.
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[BLOGS.SPECTATOR.CO.UK] It takes an achingly long time for the British to see a lickspittle of mass murderers for what he is. For years, you jump up and down shouting ‘look at what he’s done!’ All but a handful ignore you. But he’s a character, the rest cry. He’s not like those poll-driven, focus-group--tested on-message politicians, who speak in soundbites. He is passionate about his beliefs.
So he is, you reply, and that’s the problem. Since the marches against the Iraq war of 2003, I have written against George Galloway ... a British national embarrassment, not particularly honest, more fond of dictators and terrorists than he is of his native countrymen except at the peak of the election cycle ... . He has supported Baathist regimes it is fair to describe as fascist: Saddam Hussein’s Sunni Arab dictatorship in Iraq after it had gassed the Kurdish ethnic minority, and Bashir al-Assad‘s Shia Arab dictatorship as his terror provoked revolution.
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Farewell, George Galloway
$#!+. I was looking forward to his eulogy here. Fred, I think you did that on purpose. :-)
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George Galloway:
"Galloway is the most sordid of this group because he managed to be a pimp for, as well as a prostitute of, one of the foulest dictatorships of modern times." - Christopher Hitchens, Slate, 2007
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I was hoping for an obit as well. But I went and read the Hitchens link and it has brightened my morning a bit. Chris had a way with words; "When Galloway came to testify before the Senate and delivered a spittle-fueled harangue instead of answering the direct questions posed to him, he became a populist hero on the Left, was rewarded with a moist profile in the New York Times that praised his general feistiness, ...". Worth a read.
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Anon1's link is the one I used obtw. Thank you Anon1.
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spittle-fueled harangue
Splendid term of reference. Do you mind if I borrow it occasionally ?
The comments thread there, where I tried to reply but couldn't, thanks to what's either a technical glitch or a "shadowban" masquerading as a technical glitch, is what one would typically expect. Look at how corrupt the oilfield is. "We" should do more to cripple it. Et cetera.
It and its larger brother on reddit are basically long involved threads (over a thousand comments in the reddit one by now, I'm sure) about how, if we'd only listened to King Laius and killed the baby, none of this stuff would have happened and Sophocles wouldn't have had anything to write home about.
Leaving aside my personal circumstances: according to this article, oil majors have replaced 75% of the production they'd used up in 2015. If this year continues like last year, this will result in production in January 2017 that will be (hmm... (* .75 .75)) 56.25% of what it was in Dec. 2014. Basically, US production is on a course to decline to half of what it was at peak production, and we'll be dependent on people like the Saudis, who are encouraged in their dumping by the fact that the US government, and its electorate, think they're fighting corruption by exporting the industry. Any attempts at recovery will be exacerbated by the likely new president's promise to eviscerate what's left of the coal industry, which will greatly hurt our ability to produce the steel products that are used to extract oil and natural gas.
We're about halfway through a process that will leave us dependent on imports for half of our oil. AGAIN. And the popular reaction to the corrupt governments that demand bribes as the cost of doing business is that more should be done to inhibit domestic production.
The modern US is continually meeting its fate on the road it takes to avoid it.
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Slashdot isn't what it used to be. Used to be a pretty good technical site. Sad really.
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What's happened to Slashdot is bad but what's happened to the country is bad. We cede control of necessary and strategic ind ustries to corrupt authoritarian and totalitarian countries, and when it doesn't turn out the way we hope, we reinforce the pattern like the blonde joke with the shampoo.
[CP] Jamaat ul-Fuqra, a Pakistani militant group that has rebranded itself as Muslims of the Americas, says it has 22 "Islamic villages" in the U.S.
GOP presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz's call for patrolling of Muslim communities with signs of extremism is being bashed as pandering to anti-Muslim voters, with critics saying there aren't even Islamist communities in the U.S. to begin with.
They are wrong. They exist -- and newly-published documents show that they've boasted of enforcing Islamic sharia law, even going so far as to whip children.
Jamaat ul-Fuqra, a Pakistani militant group that has rebranded itself as Muslims of the Americas, says it has 22 "Islamic villages" in the U.S. Its "Islamberg" headquarters in New York is the most well-known. Cruz is right, they're already here.
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Fraud: While the global warming alarmists have done a good job of spreading fright, they haven’t been so good at hiding their real motivation. Yet another one has slipped up and revealed the catalyst driving the climate scare.
George Galloway
by Thing From Snowy Mountain
[DAWN] MORE than half this war is already won, but it’s the half that’s left which really counts. They can kill our children and attack our schools and playgrounds, but for all the stomach-churning wretchedness of this fight, none of these acts threatens the integrity of the state or the cohesion of society.
